Descrizione
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1971
contiene inoltre : ANT-MAN e DR. STRANGE (con 2 storie di cui una che ne narra le origini)
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME, PICCOLO FORELLINO SOPRA LA TESTATA DI COPERTINA CHE ATTRAVERSA CIRCA LA META’ DELLE PAGINE INTERNE, ALBO DI RESA CON COLORITURA A FILO DEGLI SPESSORI PAGINE INFERIORE E SUPERIORE MA SENZA SBORDATURE, no adesivi
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Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Doctor Octopus / Master Planner
- Master Planner’s henchmen
Other Characters:
- Dr. Curt Connors
- Dr. Bromwell
- Frederick Foswell
- Uncle Ben (In a photograph only)
Locations:
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Synopsis
The Master Planner who has been running experiments and stealing
radioactive material is actually Doctor Octopus. Meanwhile, Peter Parker
is delivering new photos for The Daily Bugle when he’s spotted by Betty
Brant. Peter is conflicted by the fact that she loves him but hates
Spider-Man and he decides the best thing is to make her angry so she
forgets about him. Ned tries to reason with Peter, but he shoves Ned
aside and to not burden Betty with his secret. After this, Peter goes to
the hospital where he learns Aunt May is dying because of radioactive
material in her blood. He figures that she may have received this from
him during a blood transfusion. Feeling responsible for not only Uncle
Ben’s death but now perhaps Aunt May’s, he’s determined to save her. He
realizes Curt Connors may be able to help and he swipes a vial of her
blood, and brings it to him for help. Pete raises money to get a serum
called ISO-36 which may save Aunt May. As they prepare for its arrival,
Dr. Connors is told that it’s been stolen and Spider-Man goes to track
it down. Spider-Man tears up countless henchmen hideouts, throwing cars
like toys, and finally finds a trap door in an alley. He follows Master
Planner’s henchmen to an area where the ISO-36 serum sits unguarded. As
he’s shocked off of the ceiling with electricity, he begins a fight with
Doctor Octopus who is frightened by the intensity and strength
Spider-Man now shows. As he hurls a rock at Doctor Octopus, he destroys a
support beam and the entire lab comes crashing down. As he’s trapped
underneath a huge and heavy iron unit weighing tons, drops of water come
splashing on the canister of ISO-36, with the river slowly flooding the
lab.
Notes
- Steve Ditko is credited as the plotter in this issue.
Kraven the hunter / i nemici de L’Uomo Ragno : KRAVEN
A Gallery of Spider-Man’s Most Famous Foes! / character profile / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Steve Ditko
- Inks:
- Steve Ditko
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Kraven the hunter
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“The Voice of Doom!” / LA VOCE DELLA MORTE
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Featured Characters:
Villains:
- The Voice (First appearance)
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Synopsis
Soap Box preacher Jason Cragg used to be just an everyday crack pot
until the day that his voice began influencing the thoughts of people.
Appearing in the city, he begins telling people that Ant-Man is a crook
that must be driven from the city. Passing by, Ant-Man hears this insane
litany, and is shocked to find that the people around Cragg begin to
believe him. Surprising still, it’s something about his voice that’s
compelling people to agree with him, Ant-Man however, is shielded
because his helmet shields him from the attack.
Flashing back a few weeks past, we learn that Jason Cragg came to
the city from the Midwest in hopes of becoming a radio announcer. While
giving a pitiful audition, a near-by experimental atomic laboratory has
a million-in-one accident that causes an ionized atom to escape into
the electrical system, and pass through the microphone that Cragg is
speaking into. Cragg finds himself strangely effected, and his ability
to voice suggestion becomes apparent when his voice being over the
airwaves causes sales to jump three hundred percent at the radio
station.
Realizing his voice could mean he would never have to work
another day in his life, Cragg’s quits his job at the radio station and
soon begins exploiting his powers for his own personal gain. Sometime
later, Cragg’s witnesses Ant-Man busting up some criminals, and soon
becomes jealous of the crime fighters respect and adulation from the
masses. This gives Cragg’s his inspiration to vilify Ant-Man in hopes
that he can rule the city.
Returning to the present, we find Ant-Man at a local police
precinct being awarded for his meritorious service. As Ant-Man is
receiving his commendation, Cragg’s barges in demanding that the hero be
arrested, and the police suddenly start trying to capture Ant-Man.
Ant-Man manages to escape the police and attempts to seek refuge
in a near-by park, but when Cragg’s enslaved thrall attempts to find him
by using magnets, he is forced to remove his helmet to avoid being
captured. Cragg’s manages find Ant-Man and forces the tiny hero to
listen to his voice. Without his helmet, Ant-Man is helpless from the
helmets effects and is ordered to walk off a pier to drown in a near-by
harbor.
Ant-Man is saved by his ants at the last minute, shaking off the
effects of Cragg’s voice he manages to escape. Returning to his home,
and back in his civilian identity, Henry Pym, Ant-Man learns that
Cragg’s plans on addressing people on national television. Realizing the
damaging potential of Cragg’s voice on national TV, Ant-Man formulates a
plan to foil Cragg’s scheme.
Arriving at the TV studio, Ant-Man interrupts Cragg’s television
address, and tells the villain that his ant’s are pointing a loaded gun
at him. Fearing for his life, Cragg’s agrees to tell the people that
Ant-Man is not a crook, but an upstanding hero. Ant-Man then tells
Cragg’s that the gun wasn’t really loaded and it was all a trick. Trying
to sway the viewing audience to his will again, Cragg’s attempts to
re-convince the people that Ant-Man is a crook, but finds that his
powers no longer work. Ant-Man reveals that he covered the microphone
with Laryngitis microbes and that they have taken effect and effected
his voice, rendering it’s suggestive properties useless.
The crowd, thinking Cragg’s some crazy nut, toss him out onto the street.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- The Ancient One
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Victoria Bentley (First appearance)
- Sir Clive Bentley
Locations:
- Dr. Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum
- Bentley Castle
Synopsis
Karl Mordo calls on Dr. Strange disguised as Strange’s old friend Sir
Clive Bentley and asks for help. Strange travels to Bentley’s castle in
England. Inside the castle Strange is trapped by the paralyzing vapors
of Mordo’s magical candles. The Ancient One contacts Dr. Strange, but
Strange wish to overcome Mordo alone. He issues a mental command to a
nearby girl to come to the castle and extinguish the candles. The girl
is actually Victoria Bentley daughter of Lord Bentley who has been dead
for ten years. Mordo returns, attacking Strange with his mental powers
and orders Strange to kill Victoria who possesses a latent mystical
talent. Just then Strange arrives in his mortal form. it was only his
projected image that had been in the castle until then. Strange and
Mordo do battle in a mystical dimension until Mordo gives up and
disappears.
Notes
- Dr. Strange reappears in Strange Tales for his third story after a lacuna of two issues.
- This is the first time the Ancient One appears under that name. Previously he had been called “the Master”
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Synopsis
Doctor Stephen Strange is a famous surgeon who works only for money,
not caring for his patients nor interested in medical research. An auto
accident damages the nerves in his hands severely and he can never
perform an operation again. The proud Strange refuses to work for others
and ends up on the street. He learns about the healing powers of the
Ancient One and travels to his sanctuary in India. The Ancient One
refuses to heal Strange because of his selfish motives, however sudden
snow forces Strange to remain in the sanctuary until the snow thaws.
Here he witnesses the Ancient One’s pupil, Baron Mordo, launch magical
attacks upon his master. Mordo casts a spell upon Strange to stop him
from waring the Ancient One of the attacks’ origins. Strange therefore
resolves to learn the secrets of black magics to defeat Mordo himself.
The Ancient One accepts Strange as his disciple and dispels Mordo’s
spell which he had known about all along.
Notes
- A more detailed origin of Doctor Strange is next presented in Doctor Strange #169 (in Italy in URC # 1-2).
- The other doctors in Strange’s origin are unnamed in this comic. They are given names in the 1979 prose novel Nightmare! by William Rotsler.
Ziegler is the doctor who congratulated Strange on a successful
operation, and then later offered him a position as his consultant and
assistant. Noto is the doctor who informed Strange about the damage to
his hands. The other doctors are those who tried to enlist Strange’s
aid in a charitable cause; Siegel is the one who speaks for the group,
while the rest are silent and thus impossible to exactly identify which
is which.
Trivia
- In his attacks on the Ancient One Baron Mordo calls upon the Vapors of Valtorr and beseechs the aid of Dormammu. This is the first appearance of any of Dr. Strange’s classic spells. Dormammu would not appear in person until Strange Tales #126 (in Italy in URC # 39).
- the Origin of Doctor Strange story takes place before Strange Tales #110 (in Italy in URC # 24)
